Description: Further DetailsTitle: Concepts and CategoriesCondition: NewEAN: 9780231192729ISBN: 9780231192729Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/13/2019Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Michael T. Hannan, Greta Hsu, Elizabeth Pontikes, Giacomo Negro, Amanda J. Sharkey, Gaël Le Mens, László Pólos, Balázs KovácsLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural AnalysisISBN-10: 023119272XDescription: Why do people like books, music, or movies that adhere consistently to genre conventions? Why is it hard for politicians to take positions that cross ideological boundaries? Why do we have dramatically different expectations of companies that are categorized as social media platforms as opposed to news media sites? The answers to these questions require an understanding of how people use basic concepts in their everyday lives to give meaning to objects, other people, and social situations and actions.In this book, a team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Drawing on research in various fields, including cognitive science, computational linguistics, and psychology, the book develops an innovative view of concepts. It argues that concepts have meanings that are probabilistic rather than sharp, occupying fuzzy, overlapping positions in a “conceptual space.” Measurements of distances in this space reveal our mental representations of categories. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as our routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts. Concepts and Categories provides an essential set of formal theoretical tools and illustrates their application using an eclectic set of methodologies, from micro-level controlled experiments to macro-level language processing. It illuminates how explicit attention to concepts and categories can give us a new understanding of everyday situations and interactions.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Middle Range SeriesGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Concepts and Categories
Title: Concepts and Categories
EAN: 9780231192729
ISBN: 9780231192729
Release Date: 08/13/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis
ISBN-10: 023119272X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Middle Range Series
Book Title: concepts and Categories : Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Epistemology, Consumer Behavior, Sociology / General, Management, Social Psychology
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics, Psychology
Item Weight: 22.2 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Gaël Le Mens, Balázs Kovács, Giacomo Negro, Michael T. Hannan, Greta Hsu
Item Width: 0.7 in
Book Series: The Middle Range Ser.
Format: Hardcover
